Rockstar is still selling Grand Theft Auto VI as Jason and Lucia’s very expensive single-player vacation to Florida-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off. PlayStation’s machinery, meanwhile, appears to be quietly setting the table for other people to join them.
Backend tracker PlayStation Game Size says the PS5 data for GTA 6 includes three extremely suggestive commands: joinSession, launchActivity, and launchMultiplayerActivity. The discovery was subsequently posted to GamingLeaksAndRumours, where a phrase like “GTA Online 2” was never going to remain untyped for long.
PlayStation Looks Ready to Press the Online Button
These are the kinds of platform hooks PS5 uses to throw players into activities, modes, and friends’ sessions without making them wander through every menu first. Sony’s own feature guide describes Multiplayer Activities as a way to jump directly into specific missions, quests, and modes from the Control Center. A separate support page explains how players can join an active game from a friend’s profile or the Play With Friends card.
So yes, somebody has apparently done the console plumbing for multiplayer. That is the fun part.
The less fun part is that the pipes do not come with a timetable. They do not tell us whether a new GTA Online launches beside the story, arrives weeks later, or sits in Rockstar’s back pocket until 2027. They also do not reveal whether it will be packaged inside GTA 6 or treated as a separate product.
Rockstar Still Hasn’t Announced It
The public PlayStation page remains stubbornly single-player. It lists one player, offline play, and describes Grand Theft Auto VI as a “single-player experience.” Rockstar’s trailers and screenshots are still focused on Jason, Lucia, and the trouble waiting for them across Leonida.
That makes this a glimpse behind the curtain rather than the grand unveiling. Still, it is a revealing glimpse. Rockstar may not be ready to talk about the next online Vice City yet, but PlayStation’s backend already seems to know what buttons it will need.
